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06/24/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

I caught the tail end of O'Keefe's presentation today and I must say that I'm not very impressed. The answer to just about every “But what about my group's pet project” question was “Don't worry, nothing is changing.” In this CNN article O'Keefe says:

bq.

O'Keefe said the agency was considering the panel's recommendations.

“The approach we've taken is to look at those recommendations and to see how and if they will be implemented,” he said. “A lot of information must be gathered to make informed judgments.”

I was hoping for someone to sit above NASA and say must. To not give that bureaucracy any chance to equivocate on what it had to do. As it stands I'm not seeing any suggestions that the Commission's recommendations are anything more than toilet paper.

Unless someone can show me some real progress and fast my opinion on this entire vision thing is going to go south very quickly.